Technorati is a strong candidate for the title of the most unreliable web service ever: frequent ouatages, slow response time even when it's up, basic functions not working, a blog index that forgets old posts - you name it.

They once were pioneers with a vision of indexing the blogosphere and being the glue that binds lose elements of the conversation together - then the blogosphere exploded on them.  I've said repeatedly:

 Technorati is clearly an IP company ( a damned good at that) that cannot cope with the infrastructure requirements of the growing Blogosphere.  Isn’t there a White Knight out there that would acquire them and save us all from this slow suffocation?

After failed execution, they gave up on the vision, too, bringing in a new CEO who apparently tried to convert Technorati into a media company.  There was this small problem though... that users are not interested in a Technorati whose  core functions fail.

Oh, well, at least they had the Monster:



Not anymore.  Today, with Technorati dead again, all I got was this boring message:


Perhaps the Monster became a casualty in the most recent round of layoffs?